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Most women who are worth the effort of relationships and the pitfalls involved with them should scare you a little bit.

All Zǎnă had an infallible sense of direction. She knew her exact coordinates down to the nearest tenth, even blindfolded in the dark woods. It was necessary when your kind was expected to help lost children find their way in the forest.

Working this kind of magic is different than giving a baby a blessing. It’s different than casting a curse.

Blessings are a bit like weaving. I have all these threads of magic that I can feel in the air and I choose the ones I want to bind together, to attach to people.

You can’t just create magic without end, echoing on forever. It’s like the terms and conditions in contracts - if you can apply a clause, you can remove it. Sounds like the fairy who cursed the family line just wanted to make sure they didn’t consult a magic practitioner to undo her work.

… building their home with as little iron as possible.

As rich as they were, the girl’s family kept to the old ways, leaving out milk and seeds and pretty stones on their windowsills for the fae folk.

Charlotte was fortunate there was enough human blood in her line that she didn’t have the typical fae metal allergies, or the strange spinal abnormalities also known as wings.

Zǎnă: Romanian fae - Wikipedia says they’re equivalent of “fairy godmothers”